Chicago - A message from the station manager

The [Wednesday] Papers

By Steve Rhodes

We’re having a party and you’re invited.
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Related: Take Your Photo With Adam West!
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Truly, everyone is invited. We’d love to see you – even if you hate me or think I hate you! Life is too short.
RSVPs welcomed only so we can know how many miles of fun to plan for.
Because I’m an idiot outside of my chosen profession, I used an evite thingy for the first time and mistook EventBrite for E-Vite, or whatever, and let me just say EventBrite is confounding. So not everybody got onto that contact list. Nonetheless, you can RSVP via EventBrite (I think by “buying” a free ticket), or via the EventBrite posting on the Beachwood Facebook page, or personally to me.
If you didn’t get an invite via one of my contact lists, no problem! That was just a starter set. Again, y’all are invited. Just let us know. Hope to see you.


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For completists, there was no column on Tuesday.
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Meet The Chicago North Shore Ramada
Neither in Chicago, on the shore, or in the town (Wheeling) of its address.
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Chicago’s Still Got The Blues
Blues Fest 2017 highlights, featuring: Gary Clark Jr., Rhiannon Giddens, Rhymefest, A Video Tribute To The Late Lonnie Brooks, William Bell, Theo Huff & The New Agenda, Cedric Burnside, Billy Branch, Melvia Chick Rodgers, and Christof “Kingfish” Ingram.
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The Weekend In Chicago Rock
Featuring: Melody Angel, Yoko and the Oh Nos, Sweet Cobra, Negative Scanner, Flesh Panthers, The Appleseed Cast, The Deftones, Rise Against, Lizzo, Laura Pergolizzi, Marlo, Galantis, Excision, Martin Garrix, Malaa, Yellow Claw, Diplo, John Waite, Johnny Moon and the Astronauts, The Will Woodrow Project, John Legend, Spa Moans, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Beastmaker, Dylan Walshe, Kipper Darling, and Brent Brown.
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Now Just Five Men Own Almost As Much Wealth As Half The World’s Population
“In 2016 alone, the richest 1% effectively shifted nearly $4 trillion in wealth away from the rest of the nation to themselves, with nearly half of the wealth transfer ($1.94 trillion) coming from the nation’s poorest 90% – the middle and lower classes.”
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When Pols Cherry-Pick Academic Data
It’s time for academics to step up.
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The Blood Of Emmett Till
She lied.
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Protecting Pets From The Dog Days
“Pet owners must be aware that both dogs and cats can suffer from the same heat-related problems affecting humans, which include over-heating, dehydration, and even sunburn.”
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Parochial School


Think about how many TV stations and newspapers Tribune Company once owned – and Tribune Media and Tronc continue to own – around the country and then cry to me about loss of local ownership. The time for tears was a long time ago when Tribune’s greed-minded expansion began the company’s downward spiral.
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BeachBook
Felt Bodega Kicks Ass.

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Gary Historic Sites Open To Public This Weekend. Beachwood Field Trip, Who’s With Me?

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Condo Will Replace Last Undeveloped Space Along Lake Shore Drive.

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It’s here.

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Chelsea Manning Worked At A Guitar Center In Chicago.

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Supreme Court A Millionaire’s Club.

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TweetWood
A sampling.


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Whoa. Then again, anyone familiar with how these contests work . . .


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Unfit for office, and making the whole world less safe.


I won’t hold my breath for the John Kass column – except the one blaming this on Democrats and the liberal media.
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The Beachwood Tronc Line: A savage journey.

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Posted on June 14, 2017